Nonfiction

Nonfiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question. However, it is generally assumed that the authors of such accounts believe them to be truthful at the time of their composition. Note that reporting the beliefs of others in a nonfiction format is not necessarily an endorsement of the ultimate veracity of those beliefs, it is simply saying that it is true that people believe that (for such topics as mythology, religion). Nonfiction can als ...more

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
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The Manicurist's Daughter
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One Way Back: A Memoir
If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong
The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance
The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
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You Get What You Pay For: Essays
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    A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture

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    Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
    Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
    Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
    How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing
    Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
    Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
    Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
    Rebel Rising: A Memoir
    What Happened To You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
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    Don't Believe Everything You Think
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